Difficulty

Everyone ends up talking about difficulty when discussing a video game. This often takes the form of a comment saying it's "too easy" or "too hard", but it's a topic that deserves to be looked at in much more depth, as the way it is handled can completely reshape a player's experience with a game. In this series, we look at different types of difficulty in video games, what works, what doesn't, and what we can learn from it.